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By L, F. DOW, Rochester, N, Y, 

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PREFACE. 


I have prepared this little Work for the benefit of those 
out of employment, of both sexes, and of all capacities and 
tastes. Any one can select something from this list of Re¬ 
cipes, out of which they can make a profitable business.— 
By teaching some of these Arts, or manufacturing for sale 
some of the articles, one cannot fail to make money. I have 
put the price only TWENY-FIVE CENTS, so that every 
one may avail themselves of it. It is of great value to every 

FAMILY. 

Sent by mail to all parts of the world for 25 cents. Ad¬ 
dress, post-paid, L. F. DOW, 

Rochester, Monroe Co., N, Y, 


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RECIPES 


No. 1. A New Art, To Draw from Nature. First. Pre¬ 
pare your ink by taking'Printers’ ink‘and thining it with 
spirits of turpentine, to the consistency of cream, or just 
enough so that it can be used with a pen. 

Second. Take a clear, nice pane of glass; a large size is 
preferable, as it will then do for large or small drawings, and 
if the object to be drawn is any thing over which the glass 
can be laid, so as to lie flat like a sheet of paper, in writing, 
sfffcli as a picture, drawing, or etching of any kind, or a leaf, 
flower, or anything that can be laid under the glass in any 
way, so arrange it. Or the glass can be put in a frame, so as 
to raise one end like a desk lid ; behind and under which 
may be laid any small object to be drawn. Then, when the 
glass and object to be drawn are so fixed as to be stationary, 
(for there should be no movement of them after the drawing 
is commenced till finished,) you may proceed to draw an out¬ 
line of the object on the glass, with a pen, using the ink pre¬ 
pared as above, doing it expeditiously, so it will not become 
too dry; and when the entire outline is drawn, 1 breathe on the 
drawing, so as to moisten the ink on the. glass all over ; then 
lay the paper carefully on the inked side 61 the £lass, hold¬ 
ing it so it cannot slide about at all, and gently rub the hand 
over the paper a few times, pressing it on the glass, and when 
it comes off you have a perfect etching of the object. This can 
be shaded and colored to suit the fancy, or left as it is, a beau¬ 
tiful etching. With a little practice and care, any one can 
thus draw most perfectly. All you have to do, is just to 
follow with the pen on the glass the outlines of the object to 
be drawn. Commence with small pictures at first, till you 
get a little practice. 




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Third. If you wish to draw a landscape, animal, house, or 
anything in perspective, so as to need to set the glass up per¬ 
pendicularly, the ink of course will not flow from the pen, 
on the glass ; hence, you have to proceed as follows, viz: with 
a thin solution of gum arabic, or a little loaf sugar, or even 
cigar ashes, rub the glass over and let it dry ; (but it must 
not be so thick as to prevent seeing the object through the 
glass,) then, with a crayon, or some sharp-pointed instru¬ 
ment, draw the object on the glass, by marking or scratching 
it on the gummed side, and when completed, turn the glass 
over, laying it down flat, and draw the same with ink on the 
opposite side, and proceed to transfer it to paper as before. 

Almost anything can be drawn with great accuracy and 
facility in this way, even portraits. $25 a lesson is charged 
in the old country for instruction in this art, and $5 and $10 
in the United States and Canada. 

No. 2. The Art Of Painting on Glass,—The only differ¬ 
ence between ordinary painting and painting on glass is, that 
in the latter all transparent colors are used instead of opaque 
ones, and the colors being ground up with Turpentine and 
Varnish instead of Oil. In painting upon glass, it is neces¬ 
sary occasionally to place the picture between the artist and 
the light, to enable him to see the effect, the light having the 
property of casting a yellowish tinge upon all colors so ex¬ 
posed. 

To persons having a knowledge of coloring, this art i3 
easily learned, and affords a handsome remuneration. 

No. 3. The Art of Etching upon Copper—Having 
obtained a fine piece of Copper, which must be well polished* 
you will make a mixture of Bees’ Wax, to which a small quan¬ 
tity of Rosin must be added to render the substance harder ; 
melt these together by heat, and when thoroughly incorpor¬ 
ated by stirring, you must take a Camel’s hair brush and 
cover the plate with a nice, even coating of the mixture, after 
having warmed the plate by the fire. 

When the mixture becomes hardened upon the plate, you 
must sketch your subject upon the surface, then take an etch¬ 
ing point, or a large needle fixed in a liandlo will do, cut 


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through the wax to the surface of the copper, taking care to 
make your lines as distinct as possible. 

This being done, you must raise a border of wax all round 
the plate, and taking some strong Nitric Acid, pour it on the 
plate to the depth of an inch. The acid will eat away the 
copper in those places which have been bared by the etching 
point, and you must from time to time pour off the acid, 
and wash the plate to see how the work is going on. Those 
places which appear to be etched deep enough, are to be 
stopped up with wax, the Acid again poured on, and allowed 
to remain until the process is completed. This done, the wax 
is to be melted off, the plate cleaned, and the etching is then 
ready for the press. 

This is an employment from which a good emolument may 
be derived. 

No.4. To make the best Red Sealing Wax. Purchase 

4 pounds of Shellac, one pound and a half of Venice Turpen¬ 
tine, 3 pounds of finest Cinnabar, and add four ounces of 
Vermillion. Mix the whole well together and melt over a 
very slow fire. Pour it on a thick, smooth glass, or any oth¬ 
er flat, smooth Surface, and make it into 3, 6 or 10 cent sticks. 

If stamped “Vermillion,” or “Finest Vermillion Wax,” 
it will promote the sale. The consumption is immense, and 
profit great. 

This is a trade or occupation which is well worth the at¬ 
tention of females. It is in the hands of a few who, to my 
knowlenge, are making an excellent income. 

jV. B. To stamp it, it should be re-warmed , which will give 
it the gloss. 

No. 5. Black Sealing Wax.— Purchase best black Rosin 
3 pounds, Beeswax half a pound, and finely powdered Ivory 
Black 1 pound. Melt the whole together aver a slow fire, and 
pour into sticks as above. 

If a quarter of a pound of Venice Turpentine is added, it 
toill be Jit for letter use. 

No. 6. Indelible Ink.— For marking linen, without pre¬ 
paration, equal to any extant. The price of which* in trade, 


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is twenty dollars per gross. Nitrate of Silver, 1% ounce, dis¬ 
solved in Liquor Ammonite Fortisine, 5% ounce ; Orchil, for 
coloring, % ounce; Gum Mucilage, 12 ounces. Put it up in 
drachm bottles, and then in boxes of one dozen each. This 
will cost in the aggregate about $3. 

The consumption of this article is immense, and in uni¬ 
versal demand. Usually sold at 25 cents the bottle ; if sold 
wholesale at a reduction, the profit is great. The Drachm 
Bottles are to be had the best and cheapest in the potteries. 

No.7. Superior Liquid Blacking— Equal to any made. 
Use Ivory black in fine powder, 28 pounds; Treacle, 8 pounds; 
Refined or droppings Sweet Oil, 1 pint; Good Malt Vinegar 
one gallon ; stale but good Beer, two gallons ; Oil of Vitriol, 
two ounces; soft water distilled, six gallons. Mix Treacle 
and water well together; and to powder add oil till well 
mixed ; then add porter and vinegar in pan ; stir well to¬ 
gether one hour with stick, then fill for use. 

A ready sale of this excellent Prize Blacking, with Oilmen 
and Grocers, at $12 50 per gross. Profit $8. Consumption 
needs no comment. 

Note. —Put the oil of Vitriol in the water and mix, and 
then add the whole together. 

No. 8. To make Wafers.—Take 2 lbs. best fine flou 
two ounces of isinglass, and half a gill of good yeast. Mix 
to a proper consistency with gum water, spread the batter on 
even tin or earthern plates, and dry them in an oven, and cut 
to. different sizes. Use a small quantity of Vermillion in 
mixing for red. Indigo for blue, and Turmeric for yellow. 

No. 9. Fire-Proof and Water-Proof Paint.— Take a 

sufficient quantity of water for use; add as much potash as can 
be dissolved therein. When the water will dissolve no more 
potash, stir into the solution first, a quantity of flour paste 
of the consistency of painters’ size ; second, a sufficiency of 
pure clay to render it of the consistency of cream. Apply 
with a painter’s brush. 

10—Water-Proof and Fire-Proof Cement, for roofs 
of Houses,— Slack stone lime in a large tub or barrel with 


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boiling water, covering the tub or barrel to keep in the steam. 
When thus slacked, pass 6 quarts through a fine seive, it will 
then be in a state of fine flour. To this add 1 quart rock salt 
and 1 gallon of water. Boil the mixture and skim it clean. 
To every 5 gallons of this skimmed mixture add 1 lb. of al- 
lum and % lb. of copperas; by slow degrees add % lb. pot¬ 
ash and 4 quarts fine sand or wood ashes sifted. Both of the 
above will admit of any coloring you please. 

It looks better than paint, and is as durable as slate. 

11. —Cure for Hydrophobia.—Wash the wound in 
warm vinegar, or tepid water, and when well dried, put a few 
drops of muriatic acid on the bitten part. 

12. —Sure Cure for Dysentery.— Take new churned 
butter, before it is washed or salted ; clarify over the fire and 
skim off all the milky particles; add % brandy to preserve 
it, and loaf sugar to sweeten; let the patient (if an adult,) 
take two table-spoonfuls twice a day. The above is a sure 
cure, and it is sold at a great profit. 

13. —To Soften Hard Water—A half oz. quick lime 
dipped in 9 quarts of watevand the clear solution put into 
a barrel of hard water; the whole will be soft water as it 
settles. 

14. —Hard Cement for Seams.—Take equal quanti¬ 
ties of white lead and white sand, and as much oil as will 
make it into the consistency of putty. Apply this to the 
seams in the roofs of houses, &,c. It will, in a few weeks, 
become as bard as stone. 

15. —Fire Kindlings.—Take 1 qt. tar, 3 lbs. rosin; melt 
them ; when somewhat cool add one gill spirits turpentine, 
and mix as much saw-dust, with a little charcoal as can be 
worked in ; spread out while hot on a board ; when cold break 
up in small lumps, about the size of hickory nuts. They will 
easily ignite with a match and burn with a strong blaze long 
enough to burn any wood fit to burn. The above sells read¬ 
ily in all our large towns and cities at a great profit. 


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16. —Cure for Erysipelas, and all high inflammation 
of the skin. —A simple poultice of cranberries pounded fine 
and applied in a raw state. 

17. —Cure for a Cough. —A strong decoction of the 
leaves of the pine, sweetened with loaf sugar. Take a wine 
glass warm on going to bed, and half an hour before eating, 
three times a day. The above is sold as a cough syrup, and 
is doing wonderful cures, and it is sold at a great profit to the 
manufacturers. 

18. —Rowland’s Maccassar Oil— Sweet oil, 8 ozs., 
cantliarides, 60 drops, oil of rose, 10 drops, oil of bergamot 
and oil of lemon, each 60 drops, alkanet sufficient to color it. 
The above receipt is worth $500 to any one who wishes to 
manufacture. 

19. —Cure for Rattlesnake Bites, and other Poison¬ 
ous creatures. —Indigo, 4 dms, gum camphor, 8 dms., alco¬ 
hol, 8 ozs., mixed and kept in close bottles. Apply to the 
wound and the cure is soon completed. 

20. —Cough Syrup. —Put 1 qt. hoarhound to 1 qt. wa¬ 
ter, and boil it down to a pint: add 2 or 3 sticks liquorish 
and a table-spoonful of essence lemon. Take a table-spoon¬ 
ful of the Syrup three times a day, or as often as the cough 
may be troublesome. 

The above receipt has been sold for $1U0. Several firms 
are making much money by its manufacture. 

21. —Curd for the Bite of a Mad Dog.—Take of the 
root of allacompane 1% ozs., cut it fine, and boil it in pt. new 
milk, down to % pt. Take this every other morning, fast¬ 
ing, (eating no food until 4 o’clock P. M.,) from 1 to 2 ozs. 
at a time, for two weeks. The above has cured many indi¬ 
viduals. 

22. —Cure for chapped hands, lips, &c. —Take l lb- 
honey and 1 lb. salsoda, and 2 qts. water. Apply when ne¬ 
cessary. 


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83.—Dysentery and Bloody Flux— Take 2 table¬ 
spoonfuls elixir salutis, 1 do. castor oil, 1 do. loaf sugar ; add 
to this four table-spoonsful boiling water : skim and drink 
Lot, The above is a dose for an adult; for a child six to sev¬ 
en, half the quantity ; one year old the quantity. When 
this is manufactured for sale, the water is added when used. 
This receipt cost $10. 

24. —Water-Proof for Leather— Take linseed oil 1 
pint, yellow wax and white turpentine each 2 ozs., Burgundy 
pitch 1 oz., melt and color with lampblack. 

25. —Best Shaving Soap ever Invented—Take A% 

lbs. white bar soap, I qt. rain water, 1 gill beef’s gall, and 1 
gill spirits of turpentine; cut the soap thin and boil five min¬ 
utes ; stir while boiling, and color with % oz. Vermillion ; 
scent with oil of rose or almonds. Fifty cents worth of ma¬ 
terials will make six dollars worth of soap. 

26. —Wart and Corn Salve ,—Take the extract of 

Belladonna 4 drachms, per oxide of manganese, 3 ozs., potash 
5 lbs.; pulverize the potash in an iron kettle, and let it stand 
in the open air 24 hours, then fnix the whole together. 

Shave the corn with a sharp knife, and then apply for ten 
minutes the salve; wash it off and soak it in sweet oil. This 
is the article sold about the country, and on the corners of 
the streets in our cities for 25 and 50 cents a drachm bottle. 

27. —Writing Ink—Black—Take 1 lb. logwood, i 
gall, soft water; boil slightly or simmer in an iron vessel one 
hour ; dissolve in a little hot water 24 grains by chromate of 
potash, 12 do. prussiate of potash, and stir into the liquid 
while over the fire ; take it off and strain it through a fine 
cloth. This ink can be made for 5 cents per gallon, and it 
sells from $1 to $3. It is of a bright jet black, flows beau¬ 
tifully from the pen, and it is so indelible that oxalic acid will 
not remove it from paper. No other ink will stand the test 
of oxalic acid ; hence its value for merchants, banks, drc. 

28. —Indellible Ink. —One inch of the stick of the ni¬ 
trate of silver, dissolved in a little water, and stirred into 


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each gallon of the above, makes a first-rate indellible ink for 
cloth. 

29. —Blue Ink. —Take soft Prussian blue and oxalic acid 
in equal parts, powder them finely, and then add soft water 
to bring it to a thin paste. Let it stand for a few days, then 
add soft water to make the desired shade of color, adding a 
little gum arabic to prevent its spreading. 

30. — Best Red Ink.— Take best carmine (nakarot) 2 
grains, rain water oz., water of ammonia 20 drops. This 
is a beautiful ruling ink for ledgers and bank purposes.— 
Add a little gum arabic. 

31. — Yellow Ink- A little allum added to saffron makes 

a beatiful yellow ink. 

32. —Oil Paste Blacking.—Take oil of vitriol 2 ozs.> 
tanner’s oil 5 ozs., ivory black 1 lb., molasses 5 ozs.; mix 
the oil and vitriol together, and let it stand a day, and then 
add the ivory black and molasses, and the white of one egg, 
and stir it well together to a thick paste. This is a superior 
blacking, will not injure the leather, and gives universal sat¬ 
isfaction. 

33— Cologne. —Take 1 gall, cologne spirits, 90 per cent, 
proof, add of the oil of lemon, orange and burgamot each a 
spoonful; add also extract of vanilla 40 drops, shake until 
the oils are cut, then add a pint and a half of soft water. 

34. —Hair Oil . —Take 1 gall, cologne spirits 90 per cent-* 
1 pt. best castor oil, or as much as the spirits will cut, add 1 
oz. oil cinnamon, or as much as will bring it to the desired 
flavor. 

35. — French Chemical Soap. —Take 5 lbs. castile soap, 
cut fine, 1 pt. alcohol, 1 do. soft water, 2 ozs. aquafortis, % 
oz. lampblack, 2 ozs. saltpetre, 3 ozs. potash, 1 oz. camphor, 
and 4 ozs cinnamon in powder. First dissolve the soap, 
potash, and saltpetre by boiling ; then add all the other ar¬ 
ticles and continue to stir until it cools ; then pour it into a 
box and let it stand 24 hours, then cut into cakes. For tak¬ 
ing out oil, grease, <fec, from cloths. 


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36. —Ox Marrow Pomatum—Take 2 ozs. of yellow 
wax, 12 ozs. lard, and 8 ozs. beef marrow, melt all together, 
and when sufficiently cool, perfume it with the essential oil 
of almonds. This is an excellent article and sells well. 

37. —An Excellent Article to prevent the Hair from 
falling off. —Take 3^ pt. French brandy, a table spoonful 
fine salt, tea spoonful powdered allum. Let these be mixed 
and well shaken until they are dissolved ; then filter, and it 
is ready for use. If used everyday, it may be diluted with 
soft water. 

38. —Tooth Powder. —Take prepared chalk 2 ozs., gum 
myrrli in fine powder 1 drachm, Peruvian bark 3^ oz., white 
sugar loz., rose pink 1 oz.; mix well. This is one of the best 
tooth powders in use ; it cleans the teeth, hardens the gums 
and sweetens the breath, and can be made and sold at a mod¬ 
erate price. 

39. —Extract of Vanilla.—This beautiful flavor is 
made by taking 1 quart pure French brandy, cutting up 
fine 1 oz. Vanilla beans, and 2 ozs Tonqua, bruised. Add 
these to the brandy, and let it digest for two weeks, frequent¬ 
ly shaking. Then filter carefully, and it is ready for use.— 
This article is in great demand for flavoring pies, cakes, pud¬ 
dings, <fec., and sells readily at a good price both to families 
and at the grocers. 

40. —Shaving’ Soap.— Take 2 lbs. of best white bar soap 
and 3£ lb. good common bar soap, cut them upffine, so that 
they will dissolve readily. Put the soap into a copper kettle, 
with 1 quart of soft water—let it stand over the fire, and 
when it is dissolved by boiling, add 1 pint alcohol, 1 gill 
beef’s gall, % gill spirits turpentine ; boil all these together 
for five minutes ; stir while boiling ; while it is cooling flavor 
it with oil of sassafras to suit, and color it with fine Ver¬ 
million. This soap makes a rich lather, softens the face, and 
can be made cheap. 

41. —Shaving Cream. —Take 1 lb. soft soap in a jar and 
add to it one quart high proof cologne spirits; set the jar 


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in a vessel of boiling water, or water bath, until the soap is 
dissolved; perfume with essential oil to suit. . 

This is a good article for shaving, especially for those 
troubled with pimples on the face ; it softens the skin and 
cures the humors. 2 or three drops rubbed upon the face with 
the end of the finger is enough for shaving. Dip the end of 
brush in hot water and brush the face briskly and it will 
raise a rich lather. 

42. —Crockery Cement, which is Transparent. —Take 
1 lb. white shellac, pulverized ; 2 ozs. clean gum mastic; put 
these into a bottle, and then add \ lb. pure sulphuric ether.— 
Let it stand half an hour, and then add half a gallon 90 per 
cent, alcohol—shake occasionally till it is dissolved. Heat 
the edges of the article to be mended and apply the cement 
with a pencil brush ; hold the article firmly together till the 
cement cools. 

43. — Freckle Lotion— For the cure of freckles, tan, 
or sun-burnt face and hands. —Take % lb. clear ox gall, % 
drm. each of camphor and burnt allum, 1 drm. borax, J oz. 
rock salt and rock candy. This should be mixed and shaken 
well several times a day for 3 weeks, until the gall becomes 
transpaient; then strain it very carefully through filtering 
paper, and apply it to the face during the day, wash it off at 
night. 

The article, if properly made, will not fail of its purpose. 
It sells very readily and commands a good price. 

44. —Washing and Bleaching Liquid-—Take % lb 

unslacked lime, and pour upon it 6 qts boiling water ; stir it 
all up, and when it has stood long enough to entirely settle, 
strain off the clean water and dissolve in this water, by boil¬ 
ing, 2 lbs.*sal soda. 

For washing—to every pail full of water add for boiling, 
% pint of the liquid. The clothes must be put in soak the 
night before washing, taking care to rub all the dirt spots with 
soap; then boil them with the liquid 35 minutes. They are theu 
to be.drawn and put into a tub, and clear boiling water pour¬ 
ed over them ; then rub them out and rinse them well and 
they are fit for drying. 


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45. --Beautiful and cheap Soap—Take 1 lb, common 

bar soap, cut fine, and 1 lb. sal soda, to a pail full of water 
boil a little, and you have good soap ; with it you can wash 
with half the labor. If you wish thicker soap, take 2 lbs. 
soap and 2 lbs. sal soda, to a pail full of water. 

46. —Burning 1 Fluid. —Take 4qts. alcohol and 1 qt- 
spirits turpentine, mix well together, and it is ready for use- 

47. —Liquid Cement —Cut gum shellac in 70 per cent, 
alcohol, put it in phials and it is ready for use. Apply it to 
the edge of the broken dish with a feather, and hold it in a 
spirit lamp as long as the cement will simmer, then join to¬ 
gether evenly, and when cold the dish will break in another 
place first, and is as stroug as new. 

48. —Bed Bug Poison. —Take L pint alcohol, 2 ozs. sal- 
ammonim, 1 pint spirits turpentine, 2 ozs. corrosive sublimate 
and 2 ozs. gum camphor ; dissolve the camphor in the alco¬ 
hol, then pulverize the corrosive sublimate and sal ammonia-, 
and add to it, after which put in the spirits of turpentine and 
shake well together. This sells readily at 20 cents per oz. 
phial. 

49. --B8autiful and cheap Eouge Wash—Take l 
oz. alkanet and infuse it in 1 pt. cologne spirits until it comes 
to the right shade of color. This may be applied to the 
cheeks by a linen cloth wet in the mixture; it will easily 
wash off, but is nevertheless very cheap and beautiful, and 
cannot be detected on the face. 

50 —Cheap Outside Paint.—Take two parts (in bulk) 
of water lime ground fine, oxk part (in bulk) of white lead 
ground in oil. Mix them thoroughly, by adding best boiled 
linseed oil, enough to prepare it to pass through a paint mill, 
after which temper with oil till it can be applied with a com¬ 
mon paint brush. Make any color to suit. It will last three 
times as long as lead paint, and costs not one-fourth as much. 
It is SUPERIOR. 

51-— Ice Cream. —Take of new milk and cream, each 2 
quarts, 2 lbs. sugar and 12 eggs; dissolve the sugar in the 


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milk, beat the eggs to a froth, and add to the whole ; strain, 
and bring to a scald, but be careful not to burn it; when cool 
flavor with extract of vanilla or oil of lemon. Pack the tin 
freezer in a deep tub, with broken ice and salt, whirl the 
freezer, and occasionally scrape down from the side what 
gathers on. The proportions are one quart of salt to every 
pail of ice. 

52. —Collodion, or Liquid Cuticule.— Take gun cot¬ 
ton and dissolve it in sulphuric ether ; thicken it with gum 
mucilage. This article touched upon a cut or bruise forms 
immediately an artificial skin, which cannot be washed off.— 
It is useful, as it obviates the necessity of finger cots or ban¬ 
dages. 

53. —Original and only Genuine Silver Plating 

Fluid.—Galvanism Simplified. —Dissolve 1 oz. of nitrate of 
silver in crystal, in 12 ozs. of soft water. Then dissolve in 
the water 2 ozs. of cyanuret of potash. Shake the whole to¬ 
gether and let it stand till it becomes clear. Have ready some 
half ounce vials, and fill them half full of Paris white, or fine 
whiting, and then fill up the bottles with the liquid, and it is 
ready for use. The whiting does not increase the coating 
power ; it only helps to clean the articles, and to save the sil¬ 
ver fluid by half filling the bottles. The above quantity of 
materials will cost about $1 61, so that the fluid will only cost 
about 3 cents a bottle. 

54. —Matches. —The ends of the tapers, or wood, should 
be very dry, and then dipped in hot melted sulphur, and laid 
aside to dry. Then take 4 parts of glue, dissolve it, and when 
hot, add 1 part of phosphorus, and stir in a few spoonfuls of 
fine whiting to bring it to the proper thickness. 

This preparation should be kept hot by being suspended 
over a lamp while dipping the wood or tapers. Color the 
ends of the matches by adding a little vermillion, lamp black 
or Prussian blue to the mass. Be careful not to ignite the 
compound while dipping. 

55. —Barrett’s Certain Preventive of the Potato 

Rot.—S ow unleached ashes over the field once a week for 


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aix weeks, commencing soon after the second hoeing. Apply 
two or three bushels to the acre, using care to dust the tops 
well. It has never been known to fail, where faithfully tested. 

56. — Cologne —A Superior Article. —Take of 90 per ct. 
best alcohol 1 gall., add to it one ounce oilburgamot,one ounce 
oil of orange, two drachms oil of Cedrat, one drachm of oil 
of Nevoli, and one drachm oil Rosemary. Mix well and it 
is fit for use. 

57. —Silver Solution, for Plating Copper, Brass 

aud.German Silver. — 1. Cut into small pieces a twenty-five 
cent piece, and put it into an ear them vessel with half an 
ounce of nitric acid. 2. Put the vessel into warm water, un¬ 
covered, until it dissolves. 3. Add half a gill of water and 1 
tea§poonful of fine salt, let settle. 4. Drain off and repeat ad¬ 
ding water to the sediment until the acid taste is all out of 
the water. 5. Add finally about a pint of water to the sedi¬ 
ment, and 4 scruples cyanide of potassa, and all is ready.— 
6. Put in bottom of solution a piece of zinc; about 2 inches 
long, 1 wide and one-eighth in thickness. 7. After cleaning, 
immerse the article to be plated in the solution about half a 
minute, letting it rest on the zinc. 8. Wipe of with dry cloth 
and repeat once. Polish with buckskin. Thickness of plate 
can bo increased by repeating. 

58. — Superior Washing Soap.—Take 5 pounds bar 
soap, or 7 pounds good soft soap, 4 pounds sal soda, 2 oz. bo¬ 
rax, 1 oz. hartshorn ; to be dissolved in 22 quarts of water and 
boiled about fifteen minutes. Por hard soap add to the above 
half a pound of rosin. 

59. —Superior Boot Blacking.—To 4 ounces gum as- 
phaltura add half a pint of turpentine, put over fire for fif¬ 
teen minutes. 

60. --Patent Burning Fluid—For lamps. A superior 
article. To one gallon of 95 per cent, alcohol add one quart 
of camphene oil. Mix well, and if transparent it is fit for 
use. If not, add sufficient alcohol to bring it to the natural 
color of the alcohol. It may be colored to suit the fancy by 


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adding a little tincture of golden seal, or any other coloring 
drug. Receipt cost $ 10. 

61. —Superior Paint —For brick houses. To lime white¬ 
wash, add for a fastener, sulphate of zinc, and shade with any 
color you choose, as yellow ochre, Yenetian red &c. It out¬ 
lasts oil paint. 

62. —Piles— Perfectly Cured. Take flour of sulphur l 
oz, rosin 3 ozs., pulverize and mix well together. (Color Avith 
carmine or cochineal, if your like.) Dose —What will lie on 
a five cent piece, night and morning, washing the parts freely 
in cold water once or twice a day. This is a remedy of great 
value. 

63. —Inflammatory Rheumatism—A Sure remedy.— 
Take an ounce of pulverized saltpetre and put it into a pint of 
sweet oil. Bathe the parts affected, and a sound cure will 
speedily be made. Tested. 

64. — Certain Cure for Corns.—One teaspoonful of tar, 
oue of coarse brown sugar, and one of salt petre. The whole 
to be warmed together. Spread it on kid leather the size of 
the corns, and in two days they will be drawn out. 

65. —Small Pox— Certain Cure. Take one grain each of 
powdered Fox-glove ( Digitalis ,) and sulphate of zinc. Rub 
together thoroughly in a morter with 5 or 6 drops of water ; 
this done, add 4 or 5 ounces of water, and sweeten with loaf 
sugar. Dose —A table spoonful for an adult, and one or two 
teaspoonfuls for a child every two or three hours until symp¬ 
toms of disease vanish. 

66. —Pulmonic Wafers— For Coughs, Colds, Ac.— 
Take white sugar 7 lbs, tincture or syrup of Ipicac 4 ozs.; 
antimonial wine 2 ozs.; morphine 10 grains, dissolved in a 
table spoonful of water, with 10 or 15 drops of sulphuric 
acid ; tincture of blood root 1 oz.; syrup of Tolu 2 ozs. Add 
these to the sugar and mix the whole mass as confectioners do 
for‘lozenges, and cut into lozenges of the ordinary size. Use 
from 6 to 12 of these in 24 hours. Equal to any in use.— 
They sell at a great profit. 


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67.—To Mend Iron Pots —Mix finely sifted lime with 

some white of an egg, till a thin kind of paste is formed,then 
add some iron filings. Apply this to the fracture, and the 
vessel will le found nearly as sound as ever. 

68 — Glue for cementing paper, silk and leather- 

—Take of isinglass and parchment size, each 1 oz., sugar 
candy and gum tragacanth, each'2 drms.; add to them 1 oz. 
water, and boil the whole together till the mixture appears 
(when cold,) of the consistency of glue; then pour it into 
any form you please. If this glue be wet with the tongue 
aud rubbea on the edges of paper, silk or leather that are to 
be cemented, and they will, on, being laid together, pressed 
lightly and suffered to dry, be as firmly united as other parts 
of the substance. It is fine to seal letters. 

69 -To Destroy Cockroaches, Rats and Mice— 

Take a sixpenny loaf of bread, the staler the better, reduce it 
to a crumb, then in a pot of water put two spoonsful cayenne 
pepper, one do. pulverized annis seed, half a drachm of salt¬ 
petre, the same of white lead, a,nd a wine glass of extract of 
hops. Now throw in your crumbs of bread ; digest for six 
hours in a moderate heat; strain through a cloth ; add to the 
liquor thirty drops of the tincture of quassia, and let it stand 
until next day, and then bottle it. Some lumps of sugar sat¬ 
urated with this liquor will be a speedy cure for cockroaches. 
Some pieces of bread saturated with it, will destroy all the 
rats and mice. The above is extensively manufactured and 
sold at gieat profit. 

70- —Powder FOR Cleaning and PolishingTin, Britan¬ 
nia and Brass Ware. —Take % lb. ground pumice stone and 
% lb. red chalk, mix them evenly together. This is for tin, 
brass, <fcc. For silver and fine ware, take % lb. of red chalk 
and % lb. pumice stone—mix very evenly ; use these arti¬ 
cles dry with a piece of wash leather. It is one of the best 
cleaning powders ever invented, and very valuable. 

71— Cure for Salt; Rheum or Scurvy-— Take of the 
pokeweed, any time in summer, pound it, press out the juice; 


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strain it into a pewter dish, set it in the sun till it becomes a 
salve—then put it into an earthen mug ; add to it fresh wa¬ 
ter and bees-wax sufficient to make an ointment of common 
consistency ; simmer the whole over a fire till thoroughly 
mixed. When cold, rub the part effected. The patient will 
immediately experience its good effects, and the most obsti¬ 
nate cases will be cured in three or four months. Tested ,— 
The juice of the ripe berries may be prepared in the same 
way. 

72- — Hair Restorative- —Take 1 drachm lac sulphur, 1 
drachm of sugar lead, 4 ozs. rose water ; mix and shake the 
vial on using the mixture. Bathe the hair twice a day for a 
week. This preparation does not dye the hair but restores 
its origiual color. 

73- — Cheap Hair Oil -Take 1 gallon lard oil in a ves¬ 
sel ; tie up 1 oz. alkanet in a straining cloth and suspend it 
in the oil a few days until it comes to the right shade of color 
then flavor it with 1 oz. essential oil to suit. 

74- — Bengal Lights —Take of nitrate of potassa, (salt¬ 
petre) 8 parts, sublimed sulphur, 4 parts, and antimony 1 
part, and let them be well mixed in powder, and beat firmly 
into a stout iron cup, and set on fire, and if a little camphor 
be added it is still more brilliant. Such lights are made use 
of for communicating at a great distance by sea at night. 

75- — Turkish Rouge —Take % lb. best Brazil wood, 
fine, and of golden red color, infuse 4 days in 1 qt. best white 
wine vinegar; then boil them together for half an hour; strain 
through a linen cloth, and place the liquid again over the fire; 
having in the meantime dissolved % lb. allum in 1 pt. white 
wine vinegar, mix the two liquids and stir them well togeth¬ 
er. The scum which now arises should be carefully taken 
off, and gradually dried and powdered. 

76- — Iron Rust Cement-— Take one hundred parts iron 
filings, pounded and sifted, add one part salammonia. When 
it is applied give it sufficiency of water to make it of a paste 
consistency. This cement is used for filling up seams of 
ron. It will sell wherever such is needed. 
















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